Word: umpteen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...much of a life, no. Neither at the factory nor at home. Take that bad morning at the factory, we had umpteen imminent-danger warnings between half past seven and twelve o'clock. All that bloody morning down and up, start the machines, switch on, start to take a cut, and then the warning goes and you dive again...
...that finally sucked Mrs. Rosenberg into Washington is highly charged politically. She will have umpteen Washington agencies plus 20,000,000 servicemen and warworkers to cope with. Her boss, Brigadier General Hines, will retain his 21-year-old job as Veterans Administrator. The General is not quite what Bernard Baruch prescribed in his Reconversion Report, "of such outstanding caliber as to command the immediate confidence of the country," but he is an iron-willed, Army-trained administrator of the Old School. The gap between their social philosophies is at least as wide as the difference between their ages (21 years...
Administrator, to handle the unloading of the umpteen-billions-worth of ships, shoes and sealing wax - and the plants that make them - which the Government will...
Washington's 50-odd never-say-die civic groups gloomed, got ready to say die. The city's 187,266 Negroes had reason to be apprehensive. This was The Man who had survived umpteen fragrant political scandals to campaign again in red necktie and diamond-horseshoe stickpin. After eight years as Governor of his state, The Man left Mississippi's educational efficiency rating in 47th place. Grateful Mississippians then sent Poll-taxer Bilbo to the Senate. There he showed his mettle by suggestions such as that all the nation's economic ills might be cured...
...used, Purp 1) gave WPB an airtight control over the flow of raw materials; 2) prevented automatically any leaks of material to non-rated uses; 3) gave WPB an over-all moving picture of war production and of raw-material needs and uses that umpteen other surveys had failed to produce...